Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-07-15


whether the tracks were fresh or not.
telegram was at once sent to Fort Worth
for dogs and Sheriff Ship of Tarrant
county arrived with his blood
hounds on the 9:40 8. m. train.
The dogs were Immediately carried to .
to the BostiCk place, but owing to the .
great crowd present failed to strike
trail. The crowd was then asked TO dis
aerse, which they did, and the dogs /
were taken away for while. At $3.50 |
the dogs were again given the scent and /
struck i trail. They followed 1t in 9
northwesternly direction to the geEeek |
bottom where it WAS lost once more. !
The dogs were taken back 10 the AeqSe. !
This time they were kept for some ti9S 70
the room where the deed was comnlfttedi
were shown
A sPLOTCH OF BLOOD
upon the window sill, evidently left oys
the hand OF the escaping fn1San, aItfi
some tracks of enormous size found iuy1
the garden. AgsIn they ;5gsye "a cTY.
and followed the tralf over td5
same course g. formerly,
losing it again at the same point. Be
tween 5 eud O'Clock this morning q
meeting OF citizens was held at the city
hall and Sheriff Ware immediately deru-
TIED all present to assist in tire WOT6 OF
uuearthing the scoundrel or scoundTels.
II was determined TO divide those depu-
tized into squads Of four each, to give
every house that might be thought to con-
tain the guilty party Or parties 3 thor
ough searching. These squads were out
all the morning, but succeeded IN dIscoV-
eripg nothing of any importance. Inc
whole city has been in 9 fever OF excite
ment ell dsy, and business has been prsc-
ticaly suspended. II the miscreant Is
discovered
LYNCHING
will undoubtedly tske place. At 5 o'clock
/ tonight the whole affair is still sbrodded
in mystery. The officers have used al
NEST superhumau CXGrIons and have
telegraphed 20 Officers il 81 directions 10
be on the ootoob, but their efforts so i&r
seem TO have been entirely ITuItiess'
BlOoihoundS from the convict camp near
| GreeEvilie were brought here this Altel-
noon and viii be given the scent lC-nlElJ.
4 subscription for reward for the arrest
and conviction Of the guilty ones was
started here this mOrpipg and now fooIs
up over $1,000 The Governor Will Dc
asked to offer Gn additional thousand
also. Our people are thoroughly aroused
and are determined hat no stone shall 0e
unLuraed TO Unravel The mystery and
PUNISH THE GULLY.
The hardest thing so solve u the WGG-e
affair is the motive for the crime Ile
, msn or men who perpctra!ed the deco
, from ell appearances were not aCLuateC
i by lust or desire 70 rob, but the mos
tangible theory now presented that car
. be sustained by the fsctS CT the case If
, that wilful and deliberate murder wa,
] the aCtuating cause. The young ladle-
5 did not have an enemy In the world .,
far as known, and it is hard to see WY
, their lives should have been wanted, on
. strange as it seems, blood seems 20 HaV'
been the desire Ct those who perpe
. trated the most coWardly and acTocIou
crime ever committed in Cooke county
THE PARENTS GRIEF STRICKEN.
e. Special 70 the Gazette
. DALLAS. TEX, July 13,-Deep TegTe
prevails throughout the city over the un
: fortunate death of Miss Gena Watkins L
4 Gainesville last night. The father OF IN
= Young Isdy has been highly respec'e
4, citizen OF Dallas for five years, havl0
= moved here in 1882 from Atlanta, "a
4 Mr.. Watkins keeps q hotel near N
Union depot, and was this morning tSls
+ ing to guest, q regular customer OF IN
4 house, about his daughter, whom {
. know was to love, when he received n
:, startling and narrowing intelligence
. "Gepa is diving. Come at once" TEL
. message was soon followed by tn
. horrible details OF the murder
a. The shock and consequent grief Of tn
, father and MS aged wife at the untimel
. taking of their only and adOred child CO
: onlv be imagined. The circumstance
= we're rendered more touching by the az
! rival of g letter from the young lady
~ the morning mail, received Just efter tR
10 telegram, saving: 81 em having g de
! Iigntful visit, but am getting home sic
n and anxious to see dear papS and man
lie ms" !
.. The Young lady is Just inner ninsteeni
= wear. beautiful, accomplished and Unive
(. sally esteemed. she was afliance8
Mr.. Abe Norwood, q very ezeeRel
young man in the employ OF Bsspl
~ anshlp & Blake Of this City. TT
- Grief of her lover whan he received "a
&c sad news wGs pititul. In company VII
- the sorrowirg parents he TOOK the noe
80 train for Gainesville. From Mrs. K.
80 BRYANT, cousin to Miss, Watkins 20,
~ CORRESPONDENT learned that the your
\ ledy hiss been visiting @ relative, Mr.
"A Lou II. Willis at Gainesville for sever
ne weeks. and was spending the night wi
10 Miss Bostick, the other victim OF q
no aerdish assassin, and that she intendi
mo- returning to Dallas in few days
M BLOODHoUNDS FROM GREENYILLE' !
- Special to the Gazette.
- GREENvILLE, TEX, ,uly l3.-BetWe
- II end u O'Clock this fOurnoon me
~ sage was received b; the sheriff CT II
~ - county over the telephone from Game
~ Vile. that two Young ladies had been sh
-, ~ 10 death bv some diabolical tieDd in III
ID CITY between and ( O'Clock this MOI
o oG inc. and that Deputy Sheriff Andre
-gG and his pack Of bloodhoundS were wal
he wanted there BY o'clock. The ofiict
bo here took special train which arrived
- about 3 O'Clock. At ;25 Deputy Will!
- Andrews with his bloodhOunds, acco
- panied by Colonel n. J. Ross, ex-snel
90, rol of this county, left Greenville. III
10 were in Denison, ffty-eight miles q
tant, by Ala O'Clock, and as trey VIZ
7er through On the same train, 1t Is supPos
,.d they arrived in Gainesville at the nc
.bo designated. The facts as learL
- here are meagre and ere simply that
Ca mon entered a room where two you
oil, ladies were sleeping and that one OF IN
90 being aroused by Tire noise when
vfIIan shot her and then shot the OF
- Young lady, killing both and making
49,, escspe, The names Of the young IaQ
III are not learned, hut it seems they Wer'
% e HIGH social standing and that one '
- from Dallas on visit to the other.
tn -S Ter particulars IS also the result OF